KSA’s Red Sea Project taps Germany’s ILF Consulting Engineers to build net-carbon multi-utility system

Some progress for Saudi’s RSP: Saudi Arabia’s luxury Red Sea Project (RSP) has tapped Germany-based ILF Consulting Engineers as an independent engineer for the construction of its USD 1.5 bn multi-utility system, Zawya reported. The RSP — developed by Red Sea Global, a global multi-project developer fully owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund (PIF) — will have a net-carbon utility system providing renewable energy, potable water, wastewater treatment, district cooling, and solid waste treatment for 16 hotels, an international airport, and related infrastructure for the project’s first phase.

Net-carbon how? The renewable energy for the project will be generated through a 340 MW solar plant, a 1.2k MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) facility and an internal combustion engine with a capacity of 108.98 MW capacity. Potable water will be delivered using a seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant, with district cooling made possible with a capacity of 32.5k refrigeration tons.